US Patent Issued to Apple on June 3 for "Mapping application with turn-by-turn navigation mode for output to vehicle display" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,661, issued on June 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Mapping application with turn-by-turn navigation mode for output to vehicle display" was invented by Bradford A. Moore (San Francisco), Emanuele A. Vulcano (San Francisco), Jorge Fino (San Jose, Calif.) and Marcel Van Os (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for an application executing on a mobile device. The method renders an animated navigation presentation for output to an external display screen not part of the mobile device. The navigation presentation includes an animated map showing at least a portion of a route to...